Quotes from My Name is Mary Sutter

Robin Oliveira ·  364 pages

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“In some ways I liked the struggle better, I think. It clarified what was important.”
― Robin Oliveira, quote from My Name is Mary Sutter


“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”
― Robin Oliveira, quote from My Name is Mary Sutter


“How women defeat one another; how need defeats women.”
― Robin Oliveira, quote from My Name is Mary Sutter


“Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.”
― Robin Oliveira, quote from My Name is Mary Sutter


“Why is it that voices break hearts?”
― Robin Oliveira, quote from My Name is Mary Sutter



“Sometimes, he felt himself not so much at his wit’s end, but witless.”
― Robin Oliveira, quote from My Name is Mary Sutter


About the author

Robin Oliveira
Born place: The United States
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